The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LNNL) in California is now home to the fastest supercomputer in the world. Dubbed ...

Many people in places like the US get enough iodine through their diet. There are specific groups of people who are more ...

Scientists at the University of Maine estimate that around 7,500 lakes in West Greenland underwent unprecedented ecological ...

O ne of Earth’s seven quasi-moons has just got a new name: Asteroid 2004 GU9 is now known as Cardea, one of the Roman deities of doors and thresholds with a particular focus on hinges.

The earliest known dinosaur fossils date to around 230 million years ago, and have been found in southern Brazil, Argentina, and Zimbabwe. The current wide gap between the first two locations and the ...

When the USA first sent astronauts to the Moon on Apollo 11, they wanted to plant an American flag on the surface. The problem was that a regular flag would look somewhat disappointing, as the Moon ...

Panic at the penguin colony!

C all in the forensic experts, for a crime has been committed (albeit, 76 million years ago). That’s according to an ...

A nasal spray therapy for treatment-resistant major depressive disorder (MDD) has now been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use on its own, making it the first-ever approved ...

E lectromagnetic chorus waves once thought to only exist close to the Earth have been found at a distance of 165,000 ...

Worryingly, the new study is not the first to find this worrying link between ADHD and shorter lives. A 2019 study concluded that adults diagnosed with ADHD in childhood had a shorter expectancy – by ...

L ife can get a bit lonely for the orchid Stigmatodactylus sikokianus. It grows in dark and secluded places where it’s easy to miss and rarely visited by pollinators, but a 130-year mystery has ...